Recent content by SailorHF

I'm not sure I remember all the steps correctly since I didn't write it all down but I will try. I just downloaded the Media Creation Tool, not the actual iso file (I don't know if MS lets you download an iso file directly, without doing it through the Media Creation Tool). Then I used the...

Oops, had a bit of a brainfart there, didn't I. :D

Aaand success :) Win RE is now enabled again. What I had to do was download the windows media creation tool, make an iso with that, mount the iso, copy the install.esd from there, and copy the winre.wim and reagent.xml files from there to the system32/recovery folder on my os drive, and after...

If the recovery image is placed on the C drive and the C drive is encrypted with BitLocker, surely that can't work correctly? In any case, there's good news and bad news for me. I tried following the instructions in this article KB5028997: Instructions to manually resize your partition to...

Oh nice, a 26 gig partition for this stuff? :D Yeah, I guess I got lucky my older laptop model doesn't have that, on a 500 gig SSD 26 gigs for that feels like a lot and I would definitely be tempted to just remove that. You must be right about the MyAsus in WinRE, because I checked and that...

But, does that utility work even if the OS drive is encrypted with Device Encryption (or the full BitLocker on Pro Windows versions)? Because I know that with an unencrypted drive it's always just possible to boot to a different OS or move the hard drive to a different computer and get all the...

Hello! So like many others I have been waiting for months now for Microsoft to fix the issues with automatically updating the WinRE image on the Recovery partition during Windows cumulative updates, so that updates like the fix for the BitLocker bypass through WinRE vulnerability CVE-2024-20666...

Is it really true that SMS 2FA is less secure than no 2FA at all? How could that possibly be? For a SIM swap attack to work, the attacker at least has to fool your phone carrier... and actually know what that carrier is, before it can work, and they still need your password and user name of...

My Asus laptop came with McAfee preinstalled, which was an unpleasant surprise. A pleasant surprise was that it seemed to cleanly uninstall without causing trouble simply by using the normal Windows Add/Remove Program feature. Didn´t even leave leftover files in Program Files etc. After...

Thank you for these instructions! I had forgotten how the power options work. 😅 One question: I think back in the XP days you could only change power options as an administrator, but in Windows 11 it seems like you can change power options even as a regular non-admin user. Is that the way it´s...

Thanks for the very helpful answers, all, good info in a form that even guys like me can understand! :) It sounds like Win 11 Device encryption is pretty secure, that´s very cool, particularly because it´s so easy to set up and use, basically everything goes automatically.

Hi! Got a new Win 11 Home laptop (22H2 22621.1848), trying to learn how everything works and have some possibly silly questions, sorry. 😅 When I set this thing up out of the box, it automatically enabled "Device encryption", which I like, encryption is good in general in this world of thieves...